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Thinking about how wild it is that enshittification starts as a way for the rich to squeeze the populace for more money but ends up infecting everything so even luxury products decline in quality. They’ve got more money than fucking God now and for what? Literally they can’t even buy fun nice stuff for themselves because they killed craft.

Anyway this post is about Dhaka muslin but it’s also about everything.

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good > finally building the habit of checking my trouser pockets for tissues and stuff before putting them in the washing machine

bad > being unable to do so without saying "what's it got in its nasty little pocketses" in a gollum voice

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“Then at about three in the morning the phone rang in the room and it was Lindsay [one of the Apple security guards] saying to come over to Apple if we weren’t too tired. Well, we were, but we didn’t tell him that. […] Then Lindsay told us the surprise was a complete tour of the Apple building. […] So up the stairs and into the private offices. Then Paul’s office—there was a beautiful picture of him and John over the back wall, one I’d never seen before. On the wall over the fireplace was a basic white wooden chair, sewn in half and just hung up there!” 

Article and top photo by Mike Sacchetti, a Beatles fan who was able to take a private tour of Apple in February 1972. [x] 

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Stop saying “there are plenty of fish in the sea”. I’ve got my eye on one specific, emotionally distant salmon with commitment issues

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Get Back: gay crisis condensed (PART 3)

I don't wanna go on the roof

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Get Back: gay crisis condensed (PART 2.2)

and now! your host for this evening: the rolling stones!

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Get Back: gay crisis condensed (PART 2.1)

d e p r e s s i o n

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just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

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Sometimes, I think about this interview a little too much...

(from McCartney's German interview 1984)

Interviewer: "But your relationship with John, I mean, in every way, as a band I mean, you were very, very close. I mean, that must have been very painful in that respect. Not only the Beatles breaking up. But, I mean, that particular relationship breaking up."

McCartney: "Mm. It was, yeah. Um, in our songwriting, I had signs that the group was gonna break up, because… I mean, I think really what it was, really all that happened was that John fell in love. With Yoko. And so, with such a powerful alliance like that,it was difficult for him to still be seeing me. It was as if I was another girlfriend, almost. Our relationship, strong relationship. And if he was to start a new relationship,he had to put this other one away. And I understood that. I mean, I couldn’t stand in the way of someone who’d fallen in love.You can’t say, you know, “Who’s this?” You can’t really do that.If I was a girl, maybe I could go out [unintelligible] in this case, you know, it's just that, uh, you know, I mean, I didn’t say anything, I could see that was the way it was going to go, and that Yoko would be very sort of powerful for him, you know? We all had to get out the way. I don’t blame her. You know, you can’t blame her for being the object of his love."

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▪︎"LET ME ROLL IT" (1974) ▪︎ JOHN'S LETTER TO KENNETH TYNAN (1968) ▪︎PAUL'S INTERVIEW TO GQ MAGAZINE (2018) ▪︎ lNTERVIEW AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL (1971) ▪︎"HANDS OF LOVE" (1972) ▪︎ "GRUELING BI CENTENNIAL SCATTERS ENTRAILS" FROM "SKYWRITING BY WORD OF MOUTH" (LATE 1970s) ▪︎ BEATLES INTERVIEW (1964) ▪︎ PAUL IN "MANY YEARS FROM NOW" (1997) ▪︎

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(moment in question starts 2:22)

I didn't get chance but wanted to post this yesterday on the anniversary of John's murder, not just because of how beautiful a tribute it is but because it's one of the best pieces of media to show the personal impact of gun violence.

The moment is, as I said, lovely beyond words. It's Glastonbury 2022, Paul McCartney is on stage headlining in his eighties and has used his moment in the spotlight to reveal the fruition of his unlikely hope: to use technology to simulate performing on stage with his long deceased bandmate. It's a roaring success, the crowd is going wild, yet Paul spends most of his time with his back to them, focused on the image of John on screen. The whole thing is notionally the wish-fulfillment of every fan but in reality they are merely the backdrop, the props to Paul's 'impossible dream' to be with John again.

It's wonderful, it's breathtakingly emotional, it's a testament to Paul's undying love for John ... but this should not have happened. Paul's only option of performing with his once-and-future best friend should never have been to wait for technology to catch-up with his grief. Whether they ever would have performed together if John hadn't been murdered is neither here nor there, the point is that they should have had the choice. Instead, this choice was suddenly and violently wrenched from them by a glory-seeking religious fanatic: a total stranger to both of them who inexplicably was allowed access to the weaponry that would enable him to end the life of a man he had never met. Without any option of natural severance or unification, Paul is left to deal with the permanently frayed nerve endings of where his connection with the living John used to be.

And no matter how joyful this moment is, it is impossible to extradite it from the raw vein of pain that lies at it's undercurrent. It had been 42 years since John Lennon died. 42 years and the loss is still so great that Paul feels the need to find a way to get John back performing with him in any way he can. Not two years prior to this, Paul talked about how the pain of John's death is still so bad that he remains in denial over his passing and is surprised about how he doesen't break down and cry every day. This performance is also coming off the back of the previous year where he bought lots of John's lyrics and art to hang round the house 'to look at all the time'. It's love, unbearable love but it's also shrapnel from the pain inflicted by a random stranger almost 50 years prior. When someone dies to gun violence, there is always lip service about the victims friends and family. Sometimes you might see said loved ones interviewed, dazed and bewildered, before they're packed off with the rest of yesterdays news cycle. But here in this moment is the living proof of how permanent those wounds and that pain is, borne witness to by thousands upon thousands at Glastonbury and millions online. The what-ifs of an interrupted life are infinite and every single one felt by those left behind. What Paul is experiencing on stage in this performance is only one of those infinite grains of grief experienced by so many others still to this day; The ones who have to make do in a shadow of the life they could and should have had with their murdered loved ones. And this will keep happening in America again and again and again until gun control stops being used as a nonesensical existential threat by right-wing groups and becomes the question of safety that it always should have been.

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"It just came to me. Everybody was going on about karma, especially in the Sixties. But it occurred to me that karma is instant as well as it influences your past life or your future life. There really is a reaction to what you do now. That’s what people ought to be concerned about. Also, I’m fascinated by commercials and promotion as an art form. I enjoy them. So the idea of instant karma was like the idea of instant coffee: presenting something in a new form. I just liked it."

JOHN LENNON, "All We Are Saying" by David Sheff (1980)

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so they like definitely absolutely fucked right

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Who would even notice that?? Unless you’d practiced writing his last name as your own a thousand times, like a schoolgirl with a gel pen and a fresh binder 😚